True Crime South Africa
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The Profiler Diaries
- From the Case Files of a Police Psychologist
- By: Gérard Labuschagne
- Narrated by: Gerard Rudolph
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this gripping – and sometimes terrifying – account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career. An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his 14 and a half years in the SAPS.
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Very captivating
- By Ronél Davies on 23-07-24
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The Profiler Diaries
- From the Case Files of a Police Psychologist
- Narrated by: Gerard Rudolph
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-10-21
- Language: English
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In this gripping - and sometimes terrifying - account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career....
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Black Beach
- 491 Days in One of Africa’s Most Brutal Prisons
- By: Daniel Janse van Rensburg, Tracey Pharoah
- Narrated by: Jason Morgan, Danny Painter
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2013, South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg set off to the West African country to finalise a legitimate airline contract with a local politician. Within days, Daniel was arrested by the local Rapid Intervention Force and detained without trial in the island’s infamous ‘Guantanamo’ cells, and was later taken to Black Beach. This is his remarkable story of survival over nearly two years, made possible by his unwavering faith and the humanity of a few fellow inmates. In this thrilling first-person narrative, Daniel relives his ordeal.
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Black Beach a gripping tale
- By Stuart Marshall on 25-08-24
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Black Beach
- 491 Days in One of Africa’s Most Brutal Prisons
- Narrated by: Jason Morgan, Danny Painter
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the world’s most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions....
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Hitmen for Hire
- Exposing South Africa's Underworld
- By: Mark Shaw
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialization of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings. Drawing on his research of over a thousand incidents of hired assassinations, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders are used to exert a mafia-type control over the country’s legal and illegal economic activity. Contracted assassinations, and the organized criminal activity behind them, contain sinister linkages with the upper world, most visibly in relation to disputes over tenders and access to government resources.
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Informative
- By John on 20-03-24
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Hitmen for Hire
- Exposing South Africa's Underworld
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-11-23
- Language: English
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Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialization of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings....
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These Are Not Gentle People
- By: Andrew Harding
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of 40 men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce, bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable treachery. These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night and of what happened next.
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Brilliant. Heartbreaking.
- By Andrew on 04-10-20
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These Are Not Gentle People
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of 40 men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury....
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Hitler’s South African Spies
- Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
- By: Evert Kleynhans
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain’s side, the German government secretly contacted the political opposition, and the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis’ aim was to spread sedition, undermine the Allied war effort, and - given the strategic importance of the Cape of Good Hope sea route - gain naval intelligence. Soon U-boat packs were sent to operate in South African waters, to deadly effect.
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Hitler’s South African Spies
- Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
- Narrated by: Adrian Galley
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-04-21
- Language: English
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The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence....
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- By: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.
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Short Review
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-23
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....
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Blood on Her Hands
- South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers
- By: Tanya Farber
- Narrated by: Deidre Wolhuter
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa’s most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you listening until late at night.
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Blood on Her Hands
- South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers
- Narrated by: Deidre Wolhuter
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-11-23
- Language: English
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Women are not paragons of virtue who cannot commit murder. Nor are they always insane when they do deliberately cause death. And the women with "blood on their hands" are not homogeneous....
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Burned
- The Spy South Africa Never Caught
- By: Sue Dobson
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson. The image of South Africa in the 1980's as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Beauty and brutality go hand in hand.
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Burned
- The Spy South Africa Never Caught
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson....
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Uncaptured
- The True Account of the Nenegate/Trillian Whistleblower
- By: Mosilo Mothepu
- Narrated by: Phindile Xaba
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a Black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a Black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. Three months later, suffering from depression and insomnia, she resigned with no other job lined up. In October 2016, a written statement handed to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela detailing Trillian’s involvement in state capture was leaked to the media.
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Uncaptured
- The True Account of the Nenegate/Trillian Whistleblower
- Narrated by: Phindile Xaba
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-10-21
- Language: English
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When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a Black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a Black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women....
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On Witnessing a Murder in South Africa
- By: Gregory Dybec
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 58 mins
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In this powerful personal narrative, Gregory Dybec recounts his short yet eventful trip to South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup where he encountered a series of unforgettable situations, from a memorable collection of new friends, to life-threatening car rides, to an image of violence impossible to shake. This gripping nonfiction narrative examines a country, its people, and the complexities of life under the festive backdrop of one of the world's largest sporting events.
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On Witnessing a Murder in South Africa
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
- In this powerful personal narrative, Gregory Dybec recounts his short yet eventful trip to South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup....
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She Left Me the Gun
- My Mother's Life Before Me
- By: Emma Brockes
- Narrated by: Emma Brockes
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Despite her mother's tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London, Brockes grew up knowing that some crucial pieces of the past were left unspoken. Looking to unearth the truth after her mother Paula's death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land - and the life - her mother fled from years before. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me is a tale of true transformation, the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to simply vanish - and of a daughter who transcends her mother's fears and reclaims an abandoned past.
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great story
- By Amazon Customer on 15-01-22
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She Left Me the Gun
- My Mother's Life Before Me
- Narrated by: Emma Brockes
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-05-13
- Language: English
- Despite her mother's tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London, Brockes grew up knowing that some crucial pieces of the past were left unspoken....
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Anti-Hero
- The Spy Who Masterminded the Largest Espionage Ring in USA History
- By: Ethan Quinn
- Narrated by: Michael C. Gwynne
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Many terms were bestowed upon the mysterious Fritz Duquesne throughout his colorful life, but perhaps the most fitting ever attributed to him was: "the most dangerous prisoner to have ever lived." But before this Boer warrior-turned-spy reached the heights of infamy that awarded him such acclaim, Fritz Joubert Duquesne lived a life of adventure that many people wouldn’t experience in a hundred lifetimes. From a young age, Fritz harboured a burning resentment toward the British army, stemming from the brutal treatment suffered by his family during the Anglo-Boer wars.
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Anti-Hero
- The Spy Who Masterminded the Largest Espionage Ring in USA History
- Narrated by: Michael C. Gwynne
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-01-19
- Language: English
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Many terms were bestowed upon the mysterious Fritz Duquesne throughout his colorful life, but perhaps the most fitting ever attributed to him was: "the most dangerous prisoner to have ever lived"....
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
- A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
- By: Matthew Gavin Frank
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling - particularly, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air.
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
- A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market....
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